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Liu Xia, wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, reacts emotionally to an unexpected visit by journalists from The Associated Press at her home in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Liu trembled uncontrollably and cried Thursday as she described how her confinement under house arrest has been absurd and emotionally draining in the two years since her jailed activist husband was named a Nobel Peace laureate. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Liu Xia, wife of 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, reacts emotionally to an unexpected visit by journalists from The Associated Press at her home in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Liu trembled uncontrollably and cried Thursday as she described how her confinement under house arrest has been absurd and emotionally draining in the two years since her jailed activist husband was named a Nobel Peace laureate. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)